From the writer from the bestseller Eat and Run, an exciting new memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day set you back break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail.

Scott Jurek is one of the world’s most widely known & most beloved ultrarunners. Famous for his extraordinary endurance and velocity, accomplished on a vegan diet, he’s finished initial in nearly all of ultrarunning’s top notch events over the course of his profession. But after 2 decades of race, training, speaking, about North: Selecting My Method While Working the Appalachian Trail and touring, Jurek experienced an urgent need to discover something new about himself. He embarked on the wholly unique challenge, one which would push him to grow being a person so that as an athlete: breaking the quickness record for the Appalachian Path. North is the tale of the two 2,189-mile journey that almost shattered him.

When he lay out in the spring of 2015, Jurek anticipated punishing surfaces, forbidding climate, and inevitable injuries. He’d have to run nearly 50 miles a day, each day, for almost seven weeks. He knew he would become pushing himself towards the limit, that comfort and ease and rest would be in short supply — but he couldn’t have dreamed the physical and emotional toll the trip would precise, nor the rewards it would offer.

With his wife, Jenny, friends, as well as the kindness of strangers supporting him, Jurek went, hiked, and stumbled his way north, one white blaze at the same time. A stunning narrative of perseverance and personal change, North is a family portrait of a guy stripped bare within the most demanding and transcendent work of his existence. It’ll inspire runners and non-runners as well to keep trying for their personal best.